Immediately a cordon of five thousand police, augmented by more than three thousand volunteers, was thrown about the Black Belt.

Richard Wright -- Native Son

The procession moved on, and still on, through ever augmenting splendours ... of welcome;

Mark Twain -- The Prince and The Pauper

It served to augment a mental disturbance previously evident enough.

Herman Melville -- Billy Budd

He does smile his face into more lines than is in the new map, with the augmentation of the Indies:

William Shakespeare -- Twelfth Night

stood on the extremest verge of the swift brook, augmenting it with tears.

William Shakespeare -- As You Like It

he could do it without K.’s taking part, and K.’s presence would do nothing to augment the effect of it.

Franz Kafka -- The Trial

...no matter how cold the weather, she wore miniskirts to the salon. In the summer, she augmented that with skimpy halter tops; in the winter, tall leather boots.

Nicholas Sparks -- The Guardian

with an augmented greeting

William Shakespeare -- Antony and Cleopatra

On him alone, then, she concentrated all the various hatreds that resulted from her boredom, and every effort to diminish only augmented it; for this useless trouble was added to the other reasons for despair, and contributed still more to the separation between them.

Gustave Flaubert -- Madame Bovary

augmenting the dose

Agatha Christie -- Early Cases Of Hercule Poirot

He had brought along a sack of chilies, and he dumped them liberally into his beans, feeling free to augment the dish with pieces of whatever varmints strayed into his path—rattlesnakes mostly, with an occasional armadillo.

Larry McMurtry -- Lonesome Dove

old prophecies augment her fears

Virgil -- The Aeneid

The crowd surges back, augmented, in a jubilant parade.

Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee -- Inherit the Wind

Buzzed again. Augmented by a different cycling.

Ellen Hopkins -- Glass

Their footsteps beat then, on the wood, as though on the skin of an old, deep drum; they stamped to augment the effect,

Gish Jen -- Typical American

Its population was sparse until augmented through the relocation subplan of the Great New York Urban Renewal Program, A.D. twenty-twenty-five through twenty-thirty.

Robert A. Heinlein -- The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

They augmented their diet with fish caught from the river, and Tally roasted a rabbit on a fire she’d built herself.

Scott Westerfeld -- Uglies

With tears augmenting the fresh morning’s dew

William Shakespeare -- Romeo and Juliet

what he is, augmented, would run to these and these extremities:

William Shakespeare -- Julius Caesar

At such times, too, his face flamed with augmented blazonry, as if cannel coal had been heaped on anthracite.

Herman Melville -- Bartleby, the Scrivener: a Story of Wall Street

His body had been augmented in preparation for his awakening.

Rick Yancey -- The Infinite Sea

I wanted to teach in the GED program, which was overseen by a staff teacher and augmented by prisoners who were "tutors."

Piper Kerman -- Orange Is the New Black

Normally those legs were fitted with slacks and loafers to augment his "professor" disguise, but today it seemed Chiron was going for a different look.

Rick Riordan -- The Trials of Apollo

Certainly it would not make me rich, though I suspect I might in some small way augment an income badly depleted by the needs of your poor aunts down in N.C. But I am balked by the aforementioned serious qualms and reservations.

William Styron -- Sophie’s Choice

Tonight was plainly special; the young lad who played the pipes at Hall had been augmented by two other pipers, one a man whose bearing and ivory-mounted pipes proclaimed him a master piper.

Diana Gabaldon -- Outlander

It has the paradoxical and I know calculated—effect of both shrinking and augmenting the misfortune.

Khaled Hosseini -- And The Mountains Echoed

If Galbatorix has augmented the Urgals’ ranks with his own men, we don’t stand a chance.

Christopher Paolini -- Eragon

She was confident of having performed her duty, and to fret over unavoidable evils, or augment them by anxiety, was no part of her disposition.

Jane Austen -- Pride and Prejudice

It may be supposed that his desire to hear the conversation was augmented by this discovery.

Alexandre Dumas -- The Three Musketeers

My sufferings were augmented also by the oppressive sense of the injustice and ingratitude of their infliction.

Mary Shelley -- Frankenstein

The scene was lit with the gemlike flameless lanterns, augmented by constellations of swirling fireflies.